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Friday, March 4, 2016

Architect James Barlow Fraser designed the church whose foundation stone was laid in 1869 using the Gothic revival style. It was completed in 1871.

Postcard from 1871

John Fraser commenced the alabaster reredos as a memorial to his wife, but upon his death, it was finished by his children. The center panel consists of a Venetian mosaic of The Last Supper by Salviati, Burke and Co. while figures feeding the poor and healing the sick flank each respective side. The reredos was completed in 1882.

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By 1867, Antonio Salviati had already installed Venetian mosaics in more than fifty Catholic and Protestant Churches in England including on the altars, the walls, the choirs, the pavements, and the baptismal fonts. - Sheldon Barr, Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917 p. 28

1883-96Salviati dott. Antonio was sold to and operated by Baroviers without Salviati, but sold wares exclusively to Salviati e. Co.

1883-1890 Salviati e. Co.continued to make mosaics and sell the Barovier made artistic glass. Upon Antonio Salviati's 1890 death, his sons and daughter continued operations as Dott. Antonio Salviati e. C.